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Ahn Young-joon/AP Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye was found guilty of abuse of power and coercion. Prosecutors are aiming for a 30-year prison term. The judge’s verdict was nationally televised. Park has maintained her innocence. A South Korean judge said Friday that ex-President Park Geun-hye is guilty of abuse of power and coercion. The […]
Recycling advocate Eric Lundgren, who was sentenced to 15 months in prison for making free Windows recovery discs, told RT that he will use his appeal to continue fighting against planned obsolescence by Microsoft and others. “I was very, very shocked when I was given a prison sentence for extending the lifecycle of electronics, practicing […]
An Iraqi court has sentenced German teenager Linda Wenzel, dubbed a “jihadi bride”, to six years in prison for her affiliation with Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), German media has reported. Wenzel was given a five-year sentence for being a member of IS and another year for crossing into Iraq illegally, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper […]
Disgraced former US gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar has been sentenced to 175 years in prison for the sexual abuse of some 98 Olympic athletes, the majority of whom were children at the time of his crimes. Nassar was the doctor for the US gymnastics team for 20 years. He faced lawsuits from 140 women accusing […]
An Iraqi criminal court has ruled that a German woman of Moroccan descent should incur the death penalty for joining Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), according to the court’s spokesman. The case marks the first time a foreign woman has been sentenced to death in Iraq for joining the group, as Reuters reports. The woman, […]
Thomson Reuters A Mexican national acquitted in the fatal San Francisco shooting of Kate Steinle was sentenced to three years in prison on a lesser gun charge. Zarate, who was arrested shortly after the shooting in 2015, was credited for time served. The San Francisco Sheriff’s Department handed Jose Ines Garcia Zarate over to U.S. […]
Enlarge On Wednesday, a US District judge in Detroit sentenced Oliver Schmidt, a former Volkswagen executive, to seven years in prison for his role in the Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal of 2015. Schmidt was also ordered to pay a criminal penalty of $ 400,000, according to a US Department of Justice (DOJ) press release. The […]
– The second Volkswagen executive in less than half a year has been sentenced to prison for his role in the automaker’s diesel-emissions scandal, according to reports from a Detroit federal court. – Oliver Schmidt, 48, formerly general manager of the company’s environmental office in Michigan, was sentenced to seven years in prison and ordered […]
The former South Carolina police officer Michael Slager will be sentenced and fined this week in the federal civil rights case over the the shooting death of Walter Scott, an unarmed black man who fled a traffic stop in 2015. Slager’s murder trial ended in a hung jury in December 2016. In May, he pleaded […]
Shaun Bridges was captured by CCTV security cameras, leaving a Secret Service field office with a large bag. The government said the bag may have contained hard drives with keys needed to access his Bitstamp wallet. (credit: US Attorney’s Office San Francisco) SAN FRANCISCO—Former United States Secret Service agent Shaun Bridges was sentenced to an […]
